You will need either the Gold edition or the Accelleration add on to be able to connect with us ; as you have a different version.
You can still get on Gamespy and try and get on different sessions until you upgrade.

Ah man, that really sucks! Thanks for letting me know.

EDIT: wait, with acceleration, will i be able to connect with you guys? Sorry if i misunderstood.

I thought I'd drop by and show what's happening in the FlightGear realm..

Since mid July there's been some early release candidates of the very beta 2.8.0.3 'Rembrandt' enabled build of FlightGear for Windows in both 32 and 64 bit. This new pre-release has a number of new shader features, (named Rembrandt, after the artist..) that have shadowing and better sunrise-sunset effects. I've been working on a few aircraft conversions of FS2004 models with this release that I have gotten permission to convert to FG. I thought I'd post them up. These were all taken with Rembrandt enabled with the effects sliders set to middle-ish settings, as my vid card is a bit challenged by the high-res settings.

An old FMS Hurricane I've modded to better standards for FlightGear as a Sea Hurricane for use on the Victorious

GAL Cygnet II

The standard issue DHC2 from the 2.8.03 download plane set..

..a Bristol Blenheim I'm converting from an old SDoE combat sim Allied plane pack. The propeller arc's material's need work as there are issues with certain alpha masks with Rembrandt.